Backend Engineer, Create: Repository Management

Gitlab·Remote, United KingdomRemotemid

In short

→Desarrollar soluciones backend en Ruby y GraphQL para gestionar repositorios en GitLab.
→Trabajar en un sistema crítico con alto tráfico, enfocado en rendimiento, seguridad y confiabilidad.
→Uso obligatorio de IA como multiplicador de productividad en el día a día.

Proficiency in English is required.

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What they ask for

✓Experiencia con Ruby y GraphQL.
✓Conocimiento en desarrollo backend seguro y de alto rendimiento.
✓Capacidad para manejar sistemas complejos y legacy.
✓Habilidades de colaboración asíncrona y en equipo.
✓Experiencia con pruebas, observabilidad y monitoreo en producción.
✓Uso práctico de IA para mejorar la productividad sin sacrificar calidad.

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GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. An overview of this role We're looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Repository Management team within GitLab's Source Code stage. You'll help customers configure repositories with confidence so their GitLab projects support the way their teams work. As artificial intelligence agents increasingly write and manage code alongside people, you'll build guardrails that make development safe and trustworthy. You'll turn complex policy and repository management needs into reliable backend solutions that support people and the agents working on their behalf. You'll work in one of GitLab's oldest and most complex product areas, using Ruby and GraphQL to improve a critical system that serves GitLab.com, self-managed instances, and GitLab Dedicated. Source Code provides the interface layer, through Gitaly, to the Git repositories that account for a large portion of GitLab traffic. With support from experienced team members, you'll help maintain high reliability through performance and structured query language tuning, caching, rate limiting, testing, observability, and resiliency. You'll collaborate with product management, product design, testing, security, user experience research, technical writing, Gitaly, Code Review, and Source Code Experience to deliver reliable and performant systems. Learn more about the Create:Source Code teams in the GitLab Handbook. What you’ll do • Develop secure, well-tested, performant features and improvements using Ruby and GraphQL. • Work through complex requirements and legacy constraints to deliver clear solutions while protecting the reliability of this critical system. • Contribute to backend services, application programming interfaces, data models, and business logic for repository management. • Collaborate across functions and teams, both asynchronously and synchronously, involving domain experts and seeking guidance when needed. • Use artificial intelligence agents for well-scoped work when they can speed up delivery without sacrificing quality, and critically review their output. • Write maintainable code that follows GitLab's standards and apply feedback from code review. • Help strengthen reliability by monitoring production health metrics, participating in Tier 2 on-call, t

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